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SPAN 186 - CLASS 3. Good news - class is being taught! Thanks for your perseverance!. SPAN 186 - 2 Resumiendo ... . Accent: sounds Dialect: sounds, grammar, vocabulary Language: sounds, grammar, vocabulary
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SPAN 186 - CLASS 3 Good news - class is being taught! Thanks for your perseverance!
SPAN 186 - 2 Resumiendo ... • Accent: sounds • Dialect: sounds, grammar, vocabulary • Language: sounds, grammar, vocabulary • (just more of it?) -> history, politics, society • Mutual intelligibility doesn´t always work • Dialects difficult to understand / languages easy
186-2 NOTION OF STANDARD 3/15 • What is the norm? • What is a standard? • Is any variety “better” than another? • Why are there different Romance dialects / languages?
186- 2 Language change 5/15 • Is language change “bad”? • Change is inherent in the notion of variety • Change is not just physiological (other elements: fashion, social factors) • Historical depth > can’t predict: “some do and some don’t”
186- 2 Linguistics 101 6/15 • Prescriptivism vs descriptivism • Phonetics: articulation and perception of speech sounds • Phonology: the patterning of speech sounds • Morphology: word formation • Syntax: sentence formation • Semantics: interpretation of words and sentences • Language change • Language acquisition (generation to generation)
186- 2 Internal grammar 7/15 • prasp i) trosta • flib ii) esparto • traf iii) moña • *psapr iv) *trost • *bfli v) *sparto • *ftra vi) *ñoma Pronounce them for me and tell me which are possible words of English/Spanish and why?
186-2 Internal grammar bis 8/15 • hunted • slipped • buzzed what about flib? • pint *paynk i) ancla iv) *amcla • fiend *fiemp ii) empeorar v) *enpeorar • wronged *wrongv iii) antaño vi) *amtaño • glimpse *glimpk Pronounce them for me and tell me which are possible words of English / Spanish and why?
Survival versus speech Organ Survival function Speech function Lungs Exchange CO2, O Supply air for speech Vocal folds Create sealed over Produce voice for speech sounds passage to lungs Tongue Move food to teeth Articulate vowels and consonants & back to throat Teeth Break up food Provide place of articulation for C’s Lips Seal oral cavity Articulate vowels and consonants Nasal cavities Breathing Provide nasal resonance
Revision of phonetics / phonology • Difference between phoneme / allophone • Nasal / stop • Voiced / voiceless • Fricative / affricate • Feature in common /I/ and /i/ • Features in common /k/ and /g/ • Write the appropriate phonetic symbol for each: • Voiced alveolar stop • Bilabial nasal • Lax high back vowel • Low front vowel • Voiceless alveopalatal affricate • Voiced velar fricative